APPSC selects candidates to the post of Assistant Statistical Officer through a written exam and interview. Written exam comprises of two papers. First paper covers questions on General studies, current affairs, mental ability, and Indian history. Second paper includes 5 subjects from which candidate should select a specific stream. Reference books for paper I and paper II are listed below.

Books for Paper I

• Arihant Objective General Science
• Upkars GS General Science by Dr.P.K.Mohanty Kumar Pushkar
• General Science by P. D. S. Verma
• Upkar CSIR-UGC NET/JRF General Sciences by P.C.Mittal
• Objective General Science by Karan Deo
• Ramesh General Intelligence Test/Mental Ability Test by RPH Editorial Board
• Ramesh Mental Ability Test by Manoj Kr. Singh
• General Knowledge Current Affairs Whos Who by Khanna & Verma
• Ramesh General Knowledge & Current Affairs
• India Unbound: From Independence to the Global Information Age by Gurcharan Das

Books for Paper II

Economics

• Modern Economic Theory by Dewett, K.K
• Micro Economics by Dwivedi
• Introduction to Economic Theory by Joan Robinson & Eatwell
• Modern Micro Economics by Koutsoyiannis, A
• Macro Economics by Brooman
• Macro Economics by Crouch
• International Economics by Ellsworth, P.T
• International Economics by Kindleberger, C.P
• International Economics by Krugman, P.R. & Obstgold
• Indian Economics by Dewett, Verma  & Sharma
• Indian Economy by Dhingra, I.C

Statistics

• Fundamentals of Mathematical statistics by Guptha, S.C &Kapoor, V.K
• Introduction to mathematical   Statistics by Hogg V and Craig .R
• Introduction to mathematical statistics by Hoel P.G
• Introduction to Mathematical statistics by Hogg.R.V and Craig A G
• Sampling Techniques by Cochran, W.G
• Sampling theory and Methods by Murthy, M.N (Statistical publishing
• Statistical methods by Snedecor, GW and Cochran, WG

Mathematics

• Fundamental structure in Modern Algebra by R.S. Mishra and N.N.Bhattacharya
• Differential Calculus by Gorakh Prasad
• Integral Calculus by Gorakh Prasad
• Differential Equations by G.F.Simmons
• Vector Analysis by Murray R. Spiegel
• Ordinary Differential Equations by S.L.Ross
• Elementary Linear Algebra by H.Anton

Computer Science

• Database systems: Concepts, Design & applications by Singh
• Database System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, H.F.Korth and S.Sudarshan
• Programming in C by E. Balaguruswamy
• Programming in C by S.G.Kochen
• Software Engineering Principles and Practices By Rohit, Khurana
• Software Engineering -A Practitioners Approach By Roger
• Microprocessor Architecture Programming and Applications with 8085 by Ramesh S. Gaonkar
• Microprocessor X86 programming by K.R. Venugopal, Raj Kumar

Commerce

• Advanced Accounts by Shukla, M.C., T.S. Grewal and S.C.Gupta
• Advanced Accounting by Sehgal, Ashok, and Deepak Sehgal
• Advanced Accounting by Tulsian, P.C
• Business Law by Maheshwari & Maheshwari
• Business Laws by Sharma J. P, Sunaina Kanojia
• Business Organisation and Management by Basu
• Business Organisation by Lele, R.K and J.P Mahajan
• C.B. Modern Business Organization by Gupta,
• Financial Accounting by Jain, S.P. and K.L. Narang
• Financial Accounting by Maheshwari, S.N. and. S. K. Maheshwari
• Management Principles and Practices by 5. Prasad, Lallan and S.S. Gulshan

Subject selected by the candidate for paper II will be based on the stream studied during graduation. Other than these reference books candidate can refer other study materials like e-books, competition guides, etc.